NARATHIWAT, Jan 31 – A village defence volunteer was shot dead on Tuesday in Bacho district of this southern border province while working on his garage. The dead man was identified as Buraheng Maha, 58. He was found lying dead next to a pickup truck in the unfinished garage. Read more: MCOT
NARATHIWAT, Jan 26 – Presumed insurgents targeted an armoured vehicle carrying the Rangae district chief and four defence volunteers in a roadside bombing ambush on Thursday, but all escaped unharmed in the incident. The attackers detonated a five kg explosive device in Rangae district Thursday morning as the vehicle carrying district chief Suppawarit Petchkan and […]
BANGKOK, 14 January 2012 (NNT) – Continued heavy rain that has hit Thailand’s South has caused widespread flooding in several parts of the region. Flash flood from the Sankalakhiri mountain range in Narathiwat Province has submerged farmland and houses of locals in Sukhirin District and damaged the Sukhirin-Narathiwat Road. Meanwhile, water level in the Sungai […]
BANGKOK, 13 January 2012 (NNT) – Residents in Southern Thailand are warned to brace themselves for heavy rain and gusty wind until Sunday. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, on Thursday, issued a warning, which states that more rain is forecast for the lower part of the South, with exceptionally-heavy rain also likely in […]
HAT YAI, Jan 12 – Songkhla’s Hat Yai municipality raised the ‘yellow flag’ today warning residents of flood danger after heavy downpours raise local water levels and flood fears prompted the immediate closure of schools in five at-risk areas. Heavy rain at Hat Yai’s Patong sub-district forced residents to closely monitor the water level at […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 11 – Two persons were injured by a roadside car bomb in Tanyongmus municipality in Rangae district on Tuesday night. Placed in car parked near a Krung Thai Bank branch, the bomb may have been intended for an armoured pickup truck carrying a security team. Comprising a 15kg gas cylinder plus a container […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 7 – Police are hunting suspects involved in Friday’s defence volunteer post attack in Narathiwat’s Rueso district which killed two volunteers and wounded three others. Pol Col Satanfa Wamasing, superintendent of Rueso police station, on Saturday said that a group of plain clothes security personnel were assigned to trace attackers, believed to still […]
Two volunteers were killed and three others injured when insurgents ambushed their outpost in Narathiwat’s Rue Soh district early Friday morning. The insurgents escaped after snatching five assault rifles from the outpost, which is on Rusoh-Taroe road. Initial investigations revealed that the insurgents broke into the outpost by cutting through the barbed wire in the […]
